Swan 57
{{Short description|Sailboat class}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2023}}
{{Infobox sailboat specifications
|name = Swan 57
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|image boat = File:Swan57 GBR1250 YelowdramaIV 2013 Euros.jpg
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|designer = Sparkman & Stephens
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|location = Finland
|year = 1977
|no built = 49
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|builder = Oy Nautor AB
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|draft = {{convert|9.10|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|displacement = {{convert|49500|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}
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|hull type = monohull
|construction = glassfibre
|loa = {{convert|57.41|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|lwl = {{convert|45.81|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|beam = {{convert|15.85|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|engine = Perkins Engines 4.236 M {{convert|73|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} diesel engine
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|keel type = fin keel
|ballast = {{convert|18900|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}
|rudder type = Skeg-mounted rudder
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|rig type = Bermuda rig
|I = {{convert|72.00|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|J = {{convert|2350|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|P = {{convert|64.85|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|E = {{convert|19.00|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|sailplan = Masthead sloop
|sailarea main = {{convert|616.1|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
|sailarea headsail = {{convert|1269|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
|sailarea spin = {{convert|3046|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
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|phrf = 21-45
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The Swan 57 is a Finnish sailboat that was designed by Olin Stephens of Sparkman & Stephens as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1977. The boat is Sparkman & Stephens' design #2297 and was their last Swan boat designed.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-57-ss/|title= Swan 57 S&S|access-date= 15 April 2023|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230415154756/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-57-ss/|archive-date= 15 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-57-ss-cb/|title= Swan 57 S&S CB|access-date= 15 April 2023|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230415154810/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-57-ss-cb/|archive-date= 15 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-57-ss-ketch/|title= Swan 57 S&S Ketch|access-date= 15 April 2023|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230415154831/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-57-ss-ketch/|archive-date= 15 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-57-ss|title= Swan 57 S&S|access-date= 15 April 2023|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230415154931/https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-57-ss|archive-date= 15 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-57-ss-cb|title= Swan 57 S&S CB|access-date= 15 April 2023|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230415154943/https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-57-ss-cb|archive-date= 15 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-57-ss-ketch|title= Swan 57 S&S Ketch|access-date= 15 April 2023|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230415154842/https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-57-ss-ketch|archive-date= 15 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/designer/sparkman-stephens|title= Sparkman & Stephens|access-date = 15 April 2023|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200810200933/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/sparkman-stephens|archive-date= 10 August 2020|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/sparkman-stephens|title= Sparkman & Stephens|access-date= 15 April 2023|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220621155228/https://sailboat.guide/sparkman-stephens|archive-date= 21 June 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://www.classicswan.org/swan_57.php|title= Swan 57|access-date= 15 April 2023|author= S&S Swan Association|work= classicswan.org|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230415154715/https://www.classicswan.org/swan_57.php|archive-date= 15 April 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://www.jordanyachts.com/1568|title= Nautor Swan 57 Review: Sparkman & Stephens and Nautor Swan|access-date= 15 April 2023|last= Jordan|first= Richard|work= jordanyachts.com|date= 22 December 2009|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230415155457/https://www.jordanyachts.com/1568|archive-date= 15 April 2023|url-status= live}}
The design is sometimes confused with the unrelated 1990 Swan 57CC Frers or the 1996 Swan 57 RS designs.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-57-rs/|title= Swan 57 RS|access-date= 24 May 2023|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230524131253/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-57-rs/|archive-date= 24 May 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-57-rs|title= Swan 57 RS|access-date= 24 May 2023|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230524131322/https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-57-rs|archive-date= 24 May 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatlab.com/data_sheet/7269/0/|title= Swan 57 rs|access-date= 24 May 2023|author= Ulladulla|work= Sailboat Lab|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230524135334/https://sailboatlab.com/data_sheet/7269/0/|archive-date= 24 May 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-57cc-frers/|title= Swan 57CC (Frers)|access-date= 24 May 2023|last= McArthur|first= Bruce|work= sailboatdata.com|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230524150618/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/swan-57cc-frers/|archive-date= 24 May 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-57cc-frers|title= Swan 57CC (Frers)|access-date= 24 May 2023|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230524150617/https://sailboat.guide/nautor/swan-57cc-frers|archive-date= 24 May 2023|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboatlab.com/data_sheet/7273/0/|title= Swan 57cc frers|access-date= 24 May 2023|author= Ulladulla|work= Sailboat Lab|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230524150633/https://sailboatlab.com/data_sheet/7273/0/|archive-date= 24 May 2023|url-status= live}}
Production
The design was built by Oy Nautor AB in Finland, from 1977 to 1984 with 49 boats completed, but it is now out of production.{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/builder/nautor-swan-sailboats|title = Nautor (Swan sailboats)|access-date = 15 April 2023|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220407233954/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/nautor-swan-sailboats|archive-date= 7 April 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/nautor|title= Nautor (Swan sailboats)|access-date= 15 April 2023|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2023|archive-url= https://archive.today/20230406230707/https://sailboat.guide/nautor|archive-date= 6 April 2023|url-status= live}}
Design
The Swan 57 is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig or optional ketch rig, with a raked stem, a reverse transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel or optional stub keel and centreboard. The ketch version has a boomkin for the mizzen mainsheet.
The fin keel model displaces {{convert|49500|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} and carries {{convert|18900|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} of lead ballast, while the centerboard version displaces {{convert|51500|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} and carries {{convert|20900|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} of lead ballast.
The keel-equipped version of the boat has a draft of {{convert|9.10|ft|m|abbr=on}}, while the centerboard-equipped version has a draft of {{convert|10.20|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the centerboard extended and {{convert|6.40|ft|m|abbr=on}} with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water.
The boat is fitted with a British Perkins Engines 4.236 M diesel engine of {{convert|73|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds {{convert|151|u.s.gal}} and the fresh water tank has a capacity of {{convert|264|u.s.gal}}.
The design has sleeping accommodation for nine people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, an U-shaped settee and a straight settee in the main salon, two bunk beds and a single bed in the forward salon and two aft cabins, one with a double berth on the port side and a single berth on the starboard. The galley is located on the port side, abeam the companionway ladder. The galley is C-shaped and is equipped with a three-burner stove, an ice box and a double sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the starboard side. There are two heads, one just aft of the bow cabin on the starboard side and one on the port side, aft.
For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of {{convert|3046|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} or {{convert|2960|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} for the ketch-rigged model.
The design has a hull speed of {{convert|9.07|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}. The sloop rigged boat with a fixed keel has a PHRF handicap of 21 to 63, the sloop centreboard version 39 to 51, the ketch fixed keel 57 and the ketch with the centreboard 54 to 60.{{cite web|url= https://www.ussailing.org/competition/offshore/phrf/phrf-handicaps/|title= PHRF Handicaps|access-date= 15 April 2023|author= US Sailing|author-link= US Sailing|work= ussailing.org|year= 2023}}
Operational history
In a 2009 review, yacht broker Richard Jordan wrote, "the 57-footer has the classic S&S rocket ship stern, modest sheerline, and raked bow. These Swans always are handsome yachts with their sexy low freeboard and wide decks. More than one client we have tried to talk out of buying a boat this size, but the siren call of a Swan is a powerful draw. Even 30 years after her introduction, a Swan 57 is sure to be one of the prettiest yachts in any harbor."
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9-yJIw9sM Video: Sailing in 60 knots wind on a Swan 57]
{{Sailboat types built by Nautor Swan}}
{{Sparkman & Stephens}}
Category:1970s sailboat type designs